Matt "Neko" Sealey,
.. as if people didn't know my name already. You are nice to remind them, Mike, or maybe you're just playing the odds of starting a flamewar to hide your own inadequacies, yet again.
If the Amiga community was like a delicious sweet cake to me. You were like the fatest worm crawling on top, making me loose my appetite. Your continuous swearing and use of abusive language against anyone with a different opinion, IMO makes you a great match for Ralph inside your MorphOS "team".
And it's prose like that which means people WILL be saying "good riddance to that two faced son-of-a-bitch". You *CANNOT* go around purporting that you an unbiased journalist with a finger in every pie, and then level accusations on a personal level every time you review a product.
It is certainly a bad idea to say "I like the way MorphOS is progressing!" and then "they stole Amiga intellectual property and at least two of their team members are dicks" in an article, message board forum. Did I call you two-faced yet? And a son-of-a-bitch? Ah, yes, yes I did. Good. Didn't want to miss that.
With regard to the FUD which the managers of Thendic-France sent me, I know *first hand* it was FUD and misinformation.
If it was the "FUD" that I also received, then it was not FUD but a real prepared document - the kind companies make when they are about to be taken into legal action. Of course if you choose not to believe it on the sole basis that it was sent to you "unprovoked", or that you disagree with the company as a whole, then that's fine. But you can't go around writing articles as if you're unbiased when you hold *grudges* against those parties.
1) I did NOT ask for it. It was totally unrelated for what I contacted Bill and Raquel for.
It was relevant to your understanding of the product and company in question, so you didn't go around thinking the #### you think.
Every time you appear online you accuse bPlan, Thendic or MorphOS of theft! This is plainly not true for many many reasons, or simply by misunderstanding or mismarketing my certain parties involved - and certainly even if it wasn't true, to enforce that accusation Amiga would have to initiate court action to actually prove it. Only a judge in a court of law can decide whether there was theft, or so-called parasitic competition, or what have you.
YOU do not decide this. YOU do not friggin' comment about it as if you know. Do you know what a fallacy it is to believe you know all the facts when you are only told one side of the story by a biased individual?
At least with that Thendic "FUD" (I don't see how it can be fear, uncertainty and doubt considering any of it's content though.. but maybe it *should* cast doubts on Amiga's operation and motives..) you got the second side of the story.
2) If you people felt the need to send this crap to me, then I wonder how many people received such crap without knowng *first hand* these were nothing but lies.
Again, more accusations. Do you realise that most of the articles you have created contain legitimate cases of libel against companies? Do you admit that? No. You change it in a subtle way, not because you feel it's the right thing to do, but to stop people moaning at you and so you can carry on posting snidey remarks about companies you have a deep, unsettling, emotional hatred for.
Your gross attachment to Amiga (look at your avatar, for God's sake) makes you the worst choice in the world to be the unbiased voice of the Amiga Community, yet you will run around shouting as if you should be given a medal for it. Since your days on the Team AMIGA mailing list you've been an ass-kisser with a fanatical devotion to Amiga as a brand name - despite your claims to the contrary - and of course Amiga's owners as people. If Fleecy weren't married, I'm certain you'd have been sucking his dick in order to get a free AmigaDE PDA for the "purpose of review"..
Your total lack of any technical knowledge makes you a poor choice for doing so anyway. Reviewing from a user standpoint could well be original but users do not use the full functionality of the product, so how could they give a useful review?
It's quite sickening the amount of technical misinformation and misunderstanding you both spout and stand behind in this places. It makes you look like a retard to everyone who DOES know what they're talking about. Note - Ben Hermans does not know what AmigaOS 4.x is doing, besides what his employees and contractors tell him. He does not have a profound technical knowledge of the issues involved. Why do you believe every word he says about every technical issue he says he's announcing or confirming? Some of them have been blatantly impossible, yet you rallied..
Can't you just admit you're manipulative little no-talent journalist who's trying to bend community opinion behind him to raise his "power level" and surreptitously gain recognition and privileges?
Okay, I could be levelled at that too, I wouldn't mind getting some free toys, but at least I don't run around shouting about how it's "for the good of the community" or "I am unbiased", and at least I can do something for it. I'm not a Vapor or MorphOS team member or a professional in the IT industry with a company car just because I can talk the talk: it's because I can walk the walk, and more importantly, *code the code that needs coding*.
Yep, you're a biased, two-faced, ass-kissing son-of-a-bitch. And everybody thinks so. And if they don't, maybe they should be taking a timeout with you. You can give them a massage